So I'm pleased to see my choice of OS coming up in the world. Maybe someday we won't have to compare drive hda1 with drive C:. It'll just be hda1 like it's supposed to be.

Hahaha

I think the Unix device convention is more logical. I forget where the DOS/Windows naming system comes from, but it's pretty archaic, and tends to cause problems in my experience. For instance, imagine a PowerPoint that has references to files in E:. On the computer on which you want to present the PowerPoint they have a network drive and so the PowerPoint sits on F: now...B0RK3D

I remember some problems with that. The firsts install cd's used to run process with the path to the cdrom hard coded as D:, later the cd-roms becomes cheap and I had two of them, D: and E:. Of course, a lot of MS programs didnt run on the E: rom. I think I still have a copy of MS Office 97 with this problem. Crappy programming...

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

Not only that but if you have a very large HD and divide it up into partions each on is seen as a seperate drive. pushing the cdroms further back yet until they become drive K or some such. Then you add another drive and it gets worse, some people even write programs to change the drive numbers to what you want.

Having a logical order it's a whole lot easier, to manage and maintain.

Not only that but if you have a very large HD and divide it up into partions each on is seen as a seperate drive. pushing the cdroms further back yet until they become drive K or some such. Then you add another drive and it gets worse, some people even write programs to change the drive numbers to what you want.

There's a simple solution for that. Windows allows you to assign a drive letter to your CD-ROM drive(s). *Before* you install any programs from a CD, change the drive letter to something high in the alphabet. I usually use Drive R for the CD-ROM drive. In fact, any drive that might get bumped up if another hard drive is installed is given a letter farther back in the alphabet.

This saves a huge amount of problems.

Why would anyone need to write a program to change the drive letter? Windows has had that ability since Windows 95. You could do it in DOS, too, by adding something to one of the CD-ROM lines in config.sys or autoexec.bat (I don't remember exactly but I used to do it all the time).--GrannyGeek

Heh, I've always used R for CD/DVD readers and W for the burner (writer). Always have one of each on desktop PCs. I use R or W on laptops according to whether they have a combo burner or just plain reader, so I remember without thinking too much...

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I know it's always be able to in windows, but I was taking about a point band click so those uneducated masses could mess up thier own boxes. I know the one I saw was Iomaga, after installing the software for my zip drive, I was given the choice of moving all the drives around except C:.

I don't have windows on any of my boxes, except in the cyber cafe. and that one has windows on hdb, Linux gets the front seat and will always be King in my Box. Grub handles windozs just about anywhere you want to place that trojan.